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had a measurable effect on the stock market valuation of the forty-two bank holding companies subject to the SEC order. I …
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This paper examines the over-the-counter (OTC) interest rate derivatives (IRD) market in order to inform the design of post-trade price reporting. Our analysis uses a novel transaction-level data set to examine trading activity, the composition of market participants, levels of product...
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We examine the properties of a method for fixing Libor rates that is based on transactions data and multi-day sampling windows. The use of a sampling window may mitigate problems caused by thin transaction volumes in unsecured wholesale term funding markets. Using two partial data sets of loan...
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The London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) is a widely used indicator of funding conditions in the interbank market. As of 2013, LIBOR underpins more than $300 trillion of financial contracts, including swaps and futures, in addition to trillions more in variable-rate mortgage and student loans....
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This paper examines how risk in trading activity can affect the volatility of asset prices. We look for this relationship in the behavior of interest rate swap spreads and in the volume and interest rates of repurchase contracts. Specifically, we focus on convergence trading, in which...
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This paper analyzes the effects of the lower bound for interest rates on the distributions of expectations for future inflation and interest rates. We study a stylized New Keynesian model where the policy instrument is subject to a lower bound to motivate the empirical analysis. Two equilibria...
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While both size and complexity are important for the largest U.S. bank holding companies (BHCs), specific types of … complex has declined. Favorable tax treatment locations still attract a significant share of the foreign bank and nonbank …
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Bank capital requirements are based on a mix of market values and book values. We investigate the effects of a policy … change that ties regulatory capital to the market value of the "available-for-sale" investment securities portfolio for some … banking organizations. Our analysis is based on security-level data on individual bank portfolios matched to bond …
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the relationship between board structure (size and composition) and bank performance, as well as some determinants of … board structure. We document that mergers and acquisitions activity influences bank board composition, and we provide new … evidence that organizational structure is significantly related to bank board size. We argue that these factors may explain why …
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